A category of synthetic organisms dubbed “mirror life,” whose component molecules are mirror images of their natural counterpart, could pose unprecedented risks to human life and ecosystems, according ...

Imagine, for a moment, being on the receiving end of the sort of communication that typically heralds a change at work. An email, say, announces a reorganization to be carried out over the course of ...

Creating stuff is good for your brain. By Jancee Dunn I once decorated a mirror with shells, but I keep it in a closet. I’m fond of it, even though it looks a little sloppy. Sometimes I’ll debate ...

Before a big, make-or-break presentation to shareholders, a rising employee in Silicon Valley was feeling nervous. Although her career was going well, it was still difficult to make it in a ...

Unlock the secrets to transforming your knowledge into income with this comprehensive guide on creating and selling online courses and eBooks. The increasing popularity of flexible, accessible and ...

In 2011, on a flight to Portland, Ore., I saw physicist Michio Kaku doing long hand calculations with a pencil and notepad. I was like, “Damn, I just occupied the same space as Michio Kaku doing ...

A controversial theory posits that life began when RNA spontaneously began to replicate itself — and now researchers are claiming they’ve replicated part of that process in a lab. In interviews with ...

Gmail, Google's free email service, is almost 20 years old having launched as an invite-only public beta on April 1, 2004. In its early days, that invite-only scarcity and the fact that it seemed like ...

Three years ago, we met a woman named Denise when we visited her organization to offer a workshop. Denise shared her passion for learning about organizational culture and culture change. We had a ...

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized many aspects of our lives, including how we work and interact with technology. While some people have feared that AI may replace human ...

What is life? Like most great questions, this one is easy to ask but difficult to answer. Scientists have been trying for centuries, and philosophers have done so for millennia. Today our knowledge is ...

Inspired by digital art generators like DALL-E, biologists are building artificial intelligences that can fight cancer, flu and Covid. By Cade Metz Last spring, an artificial intelligence lab called ...